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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ereshkigal avenge herself upon Ishtar?
(a) Namtar removes Ishtar's divine rights.
(b) Namtar casts sixty diseases on Ishtar.
(c) Namtar tricks Ishtar into marrying a beast.
(d) She traps Ishtar in an icy lake.

2. What is the station of the god or goddess who creates man?
(a) The hearth-goddess.
(b) The heart-goddess.
(c) The womb-goddess.
(d) The earth-goddess.

3. On what medium where these myths originally found?
(a) Tablets.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Tapestries.
(d) Pottery.

4. In the final tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, what does Enkidu offer to retrieve for Gilgamesh?
(a) A pomegranate seed.
(b) A sword.
(c) Shamhat.
(d) A toy.

5. Who is the king of the old gods?
(a) Marduk.
(b) Anu.
(c) Ellil.
(d) Ea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ereshkigal?

2. In terms of population control, what do the gods agree to do with women?

3. What does Gilgamesh use to cross over the deadly water past the mountains and darkness?

4. How does Ut-napishtium prove to Gilgamesh how many days the latter man slept?

5. What reason is given for the myths of this book being the basis of stories for other cultures?

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